I am a great believer in the more we look for something the more we shall see it – sounds obvious doesn’t it? But what I mean is the more we make a conscious effort to look for the good and positive things and acknowledge them the more we will begin to recognise them in…
Communication, switching on and Basil Fawlty
This is my second blog in exploring how the 6Cs are evident in our online nursing activity – in the first blog last week I explored how courage is apparent in every tweeting nurse. In this weeks blog I want to explore communication… Ok so I have to admit that this one sounds obvious and…
Courage
With the launch of the 6Cs Live! Hub a few weeks ago the 6Cs have been greatly on my mind – care, compassion, communication, commitment, competence and courage may be words that have been wrapped up and presented in a new way but they are age old nursing values and it’s wonderful that they have…
Social media stories
In my blog “5 ways to get more followers … or not” a few weeks back I explored the concept of follower numbers not being an all-powerful social media measure, this week I want to explore a little about what are important measure in social media. Social media is rather like nursing in that it…
Falling through the gaps
I don’t know where this blog belongs but I know I have to share it so please forgive me as it’s not my usual subject matter. Today was perhaps one of the saddest days of my life. Today I walked into a beautiful garden full of toys that will never be played with. Today I…
5 ways to get more followers …or not!
This week saw @WeNurses hit 7000 followers which is some achievement considering this one Tweeting nurse started off just looking for one other nurse to chat with. The reason 7000 is so important is that its 1% of the UK nursing population so it’s a number that has become a little bit of a milestone…
Testing, testing..
xxx On Thursday this week I got up very early and trundled off to London for the CCIO Annual Nursing conference. The conference had lots of great speakers but one speaker stood out for me: xxx xxxx Sarah Amani is a mental health nurse turned manager and I have been following her on Twitter and…
To Schedule or not to schedule …
I spend a lot of time lurking on Twitter, it’s amazing what you can learn by just listening (though yes technically it is watching as those IT boffins haven’t invented the “read aloud” option for Twitter yet!) It was whilst I was listening the other day that I came across a scheduled tweet that…
A telephone, a time machine and redefining privacy
In my last blog “Not a serious means of communication” I quoted an internal memo sent by Western Union in 1876 who notoriously stated about the telephone “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” x Whilst reading around…
Not a serious means of communication…
It “has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” And “is inherently of no value to us” These words were sent in an internal memo in 1876 by Western Union about the telephone but despite Western Unions opinion and thanks to those that had a little courage we now live…